How does one use the Overpass API Query tool to determine all roads within a given relation?
Comment from Luciano on 30 June 2022 at 00:02
area[name="Ohunkagan"]; way[highway](area); (._;>;); out;
Comment from The_Cute_Chick on 1 July 2022 at 01:25
I was trying to find a way that you could make a given relation the bounding area of a search by just using the relation’s ID but I couldn’t figure it out. But what works to make a given relation be the bounding area is by defining a key-value tag of the relation, as seen in the above example.
Comment from Luciano on 1 July 2022 at 13:06
@TCC I’ve been trying to learn more about the overpass query language (OQL). I think I figured out a reliable way to reference a relation id in an area-based overpass query: e.g. this is the same query above by the city of Ohunkagan’s relation id:
rel(155144); map_to_area -> .a; way[highway](area.a); (._;>;); out;
Comment from The_Cute_Chick on 3 July 2022 at 14:29
@Luciano,
Comment from Luciano on 3 July 2022 at 14:46
@TCC - sure, you can add a key to the second search subquery, e.g.
rel(155144); map_to_area -> .a; way[highway=secondary](area.a); (._;>;); out;
(I use “highway=secondary” because I haven’t yet mapped any primary highways in Ohunkagan - and in fact, running this query to test it, I found a mistake I need to correct!)
Comment from The_Cute_Chick on 3 July 2022 at 17:40
Ah. I happened to search for something that actually didn’t exist and thought my query was incorrect. Oops. 🙃
